How far would you go to help your best friend? That's the question journalist Devin Hunter faces when movie star Adrian Kiel asks him to be his alibi to cover a possible murder. Devin's decision starts a chain of events that spiral out of control as he tries to hold the pieces of his life together. This is a story about secret lives, psychiatric wards, celebrity "justice," blackmail, betrayal and a modern day take on James Joyce in exile; but mostly it's about relationships and their consequences. It explores the loyalty of a friendship that increasingly appears one-sided and slowly implodes....
How far would you go to help your best friend? That's the question journalist Devin Hunter faces when movie star Adrian Kiel asks him to be his alibi ...
"Elliott Gould said to Elvis Presley/'I may be crazy, but/What's that gun doing/ Sitting on your hip?'" "Mae West always made an entrance/Even when exiting." In this anthology of more than 150 poems, this jaunty dish on the rich and famous targets all these topics with attitude: Relationships, Mysticism, Paranoia, Bad Behavior, Race, Sex, Religion, and Gambling. These titles give a clue as to content: Madonna Paints a Mustache; James Franco was Pretty Crank-O; Dolly Parton at 3 A.M.; Drew Barrymore Keeps Her First Gray Hair; Saul Bellow Quite a Fellow; I'd Like to Say I Had a Ball Jake...
"Elliott Gould said to Elvis Presley/'I may be crazy, but/What's that gun doing/ Sitting on your hip?'" "Mae West always made an entrance/Even when ex...
Six months after Truman Capote died in 1984, Conversations with Capote was published and reached the top of best-seller lists in both New York and San Francisco. The Philadelphia Inquirer called it "A gossip's delight...full of scandalous comments about the rich and the famous." Parade called it "An engrossing read. Bitchy, high-camp opinions...from a tiny terror who wore brass knuckles on his tongue." People found it "Juicy stuff... provocative and entertaining...vintage Capote." The Denver Post called it "A wonderfully outrageous read...fearless candor about practically everything-and...
Six months after Truman Capote died in 1984, Conversations with Capote was published and reached the top of best-seller lists in both New York and San...
You, Talking to Me is an informative and entertaining look into the mind of a journalist whom Writer's Digest called "legendary." In concise lessons of only a few pages each, Grobel details what he's learned from talking to 120 of the most fascinating people of our time, among them Gov. Jesse Ventura, Coach Bob Knight, kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, Nobel Prize winners Saul Bellow, Richard Feynman, and Linus Pauling, and he reveals stories about Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Dolly Parton, Kiefer Sutherland, James Spader, Robert De Niro, Henry Fonda, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Elmore...
You, Talking to Me is an informative and entertaining look into the mind of a journalist whom Writer's Digest called "legendary." In concise lessons o...
